Nathaniel Abraham faces sentencing for assaulting prison guard

ADRIAN (AP) -- A Pontiac man who committed murder at age 11 faces sentencing in a prison guard assault case.

Nathaniel Abraham is now 26 and serving a four-to-20-year sentence for drug possession, which stems from an arrest with a bag full of Ecstasy pills.

The ex-Pontiac resident pleaded guilty May 1 to attacking the guard at the end of 2010. Abraham is to be sentenced Tuesday in Lenawee County Circuit Court in Adrian.

According to the state Department of Corrections, Abraham's earliest release date on the drug conviction was to have been in August. Now, he's looking at possibly serving years more behind bars.

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Abraham was convicted of murder in the 1997 fatal shooting of 18-year-old Ronnie Greene in Pontiac. Sentenced as a minor in a controversial decision, Abraham was monitored closely as he aged in the state's juvenile justice system. He was released when he turned 21.

He tried to set himself up as a rapper and also gave public speeches to youth groups, but he could not settle with a job. Later, about a year after his release, Abraham was arrested for trying to sell Ecstasy from the trunk of his car.